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Title: Phrenological Development of Robert Burns
From a Cast of His Skull Moulded at Dumfries, the 31st Day of March 1834

Author: George Combe

Release Date: November 17, 2009 [EBook #30489]

Language: English

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Phrenological
DEVELOPMENT
of
ROBERT BURNS

BY
George Combe.

Engraved & Published by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh. April 1834.
_REPRINTED JANUARY 1859._

PHRENOLOGICAL
DEVELOPMENT OF
ROBERT BURNS,
from a Cast of his skull
MOULDED AT DUMFRIES.
THE 31ST DAY OF MARCH 1834.

With Remarks by
George Combe,
AUTHOR OF "A SYSTEM OF PHRENOLOGY,"--"THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN" &c.

[Illustration: MAUSOLEUM,
Erected at Dumfries, to the Memory of
Robt Burns]

Engraved & Published by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh 30 April 1834.

Reprinted January 1859.

[Illustration: VIEWS OF THE SKULL OF ROBERT BURNS.]

[Illustration: KEY TO THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS.]

OBSERVATIONS ON THE SKULL OF BURNS,
BY
GEORGE COMBE.

Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759, and died at Dumfries on 21st
July 1796, in the 37th year of his age, and, on the 26th, was interred in
St Michael's Churchyard. Eighteen years afterwards, a Mausoleum was
erected by subscription to his memory in that cemetery; and, on the 19th
September 1815, his remains were privately exhumed and transferred to the
vault attached to it. Mrs Burns, the Poet's widow, having died on 26th
March 1834, the vault was opened for the purpose of depositing her remains
beside those of her husband; and the gentlemen who took charge of the
proceedings, being aware of the anxiety which had long been generally felt
to obtain a Cast of the Poet's Skull, resolved to avail themselves of the
opportun